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Post by rocketeer on Oct 12, 2019 17:13:04 GMT -6
Wow, what a great color! Do you plan to tint the bubble top? I seem to recall it was a fluorescent orange color in real life.
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Post by rocketeer on Oct 11, 2019 15:08:30 GMT -6
I wouldn't think food coloring would be UV-resistant enough to last. Plus, my luck with coating clear parts with Future has been...bad.
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Post by rocketeer on Oct 11, 2019 9:02:33 GMT -6
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Post by rocketeer on Oct 7, 2019 14:33:22 GMT -6
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Post by rocketeer on Oct 5, 2019 9:08:41 GMT -6
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Post by rocketeer on Oct 1, 2019 9:13:16 GMT -6
I love your concept, but I'm not sure you'll be able to get paint to stick to that odd plastic. I've become very wary about using anything but styrene in my builds.
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Post by rocketeer on Sept 27, 2019 10:05:11 GMT -6
Very nice job!
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Post by rocketeer on Sept 22, 2019 10:53:46 GMT -6
Why not do the shingles individually? For this roof, I gave a piece of light cardboard a light coat of drywall joint compound, then cut it up into shingles and applied them one at a time. Gives a nice semi-random look.
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Post by rocketeer on Sept 16, 2019 8:41:08 GMT -6
Holy moly, what a project!
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Post by rocketeer on Aug 16, 2019 23:01:26 GMT -6
I posted a question about suitable kit front suspensions at the Spotlight Hobby message board. We'll see what develops; they're pretty knowledgeable over there. Sweet thanks for that it will be interesting what they say. One response so far, suggesting a 1951 Chevy or 1954-55 Corvette. A quick Google will get you instruction sheets for AMT kits of each, and you can take a look at the front suspensions to see if they look like what you need.
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Post by rocketeer on Aug 16, 2019 12:33:14 GMT -6
I posted a question about suitable kit front suspensions at the Spotlight Hobby message board. We'll see what develops; they're pretty knowledgeable over there.
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Post by rocketeer on Aug 15, 2019 23:14:42 GMT -6
Man, look at you go! Lightning quick!
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Post by rocketeer on Aug 15, 2019 23:13:29 GMT -6
The front end is probably a generic GM design. I'm pretty weak on what kits there are with detailed GM front suspensions; perhaps something off a Corvette would be close enough.
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Post by rocketeer on Aug 15, 2019 0:40:04 GMT -6
I'm a dope; I remembered the Revell Model A as being a 1930-31.
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Post by rocketeer on Aug 14, 2019 8:27:21 GMT -6
Always exciting to get a commission! What kit? I don't think a 1928 Model A closed-cab pickup kit exists. Will you have to build a new front suspension? It looks like the car has a Corvair suspension.
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Post by rocketeer on Aug 12, 2019 18:14:58 GMT -6
What makes a great modeler is how he copes with adversity: Dusty paint jobs, parts that don't fit, plastic shapes you can't find anywhere. Keep on coping!
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Post by rocketeer on Aug 6, 2019 11:33:18 GMT -6
Lot of finicky work there, done superbly as usual.
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Post by rocketeer on Aug 3, 2019 19:39:40 GMT -6
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Post by rocketeer on Jul 31, 2019 9:41:01 GMT -6
... now you can already see what that will be, right? A walk-in refrigerator?
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Post by rocketeer on Jul 29, 2019 23:31:37 GMT -6
Geez, when you commit, you really commit!
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Post by rocketeer on Jul 29, 2019 23:30:00 GMT -6
...missing a few significant engine pieces, most notably the main cylinders. I'm thinking the new Grim Reaper might be a suitable donor kit. They won't be pink, but maybe I can spray a translucent pink over them and get a close match. Anybody got some extra Grim Reaper parts they wanna sell? Isn't this them?
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Post by rocketeer on Jul 27, 2019 23:18:42 GMT -6
Your spark plug boots are the bee's knees!
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Post by rocketeer on Jul 25, 2019 21:51:54 GMT -6
There are actually two kinds of Createx. The first is just called Createx, and they were designed for airbrushing teeshirts. I've had bad luck painting models with them: They tend to run, take forever to dry (I've heard you can hit them with a heat gun to help), and the finish is rather fragile. There are any number of homebrew concoctions on the Internet which try to address these shortcomings; since my own attempts at home chemistry have been lackluster, I haven't tried any homebrews.
The second, infinitely superior, kind is Createx Wicked Colors, which spray like a dream and dry quickly to a nice hard finish. I use Createx's thinner, and once or twice I've tinted Wicked Colors with plain ol' teeshirt Createx; the mixture dried nicely and in general had all the virtues of Wicked Colors.
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Post by rocketeer on Jul 23, 2019 15:45:09 GMT -6
... I actually really like not knowing what this is gonna be 😂 Well, it's driving me mad with ............anticiPAtion!
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Post by rocketeer on Jul 20, 2019 11:49:44 GMT -6
Pretty neat! Now you've got me thinking about building something similar...
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Post by rocketeer on Jul 19, 2019 8:20:36 GMT -6
... some dune buggy I don't know... That's a Lindberg "Trailblazer" or "Dune Tiger", a pretty accurate model of a real car built by Vic Hickey. Here's an album.
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Post by rocketeer on Jul 15, 2019 9:26:03 GMT -6
What a super cutie! Sorry about the bad stuff happening in your life; very stressful.
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Post by rocketeer on Jul 9, 2019 20:33:52 GMT -6
Goldurn it, I'm tired of waiting! I want to see this done!
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Post by rocketeer on Jul 6, 2019 19:18:16 GMT -6
THe real car has a Pontiac O.H.C. six engine , Monogram could not use it in the kit because AMT had the exclusive licensing to it, so Mongrams is a modified generic engine. That's not what I heard. The model kit preceded the real car, and Tom Daniel put a WWI Mercedes aircraft engine in it. (Actually, I've heard that the engine is not 1/24th scale; if it were, it'd be way too big.*) The show car was built later, after the model kit became very popular. Because of the scale thing, and because Mercedes WWI aircraft engines are a bit scarce, the builder of the full-size used the Pontiac OHC engine. This presents us with the probably unique situation where, instead of a model being inaccurate, the real car is inaccurate. Edit: Which is what dantalian's link says. * Tom Daniel did this mixing of scales on some of his other designs. The Beer Wagon's cab is about 1/32 scale, and the jerry cans, guns, and other accessories on Rommel's Rod are also about 1/32 (possibly 1/35, which is the commonest military model scale).
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Post by rocketeer on Jul 5, 2019 23:56:15 GMT -6
It looks like the one in the poster isn't quite right either. Here's the original show car, complete with lovely model; note the different drag link setup (and wheels):
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